WORD TO PONDER:  RULING OVER YOUR OWN SPIRIT  12/06/07

Whoever does not rule over his own spirit is like a broken down city without walls.  Dear one, there are times that when life’s pressures mount, that which is cracked in your life will seep out bitter fruit.  Beloved, no one has to tell you what is broken in your life, you already know. 

Please bring Me your broken walls and I will teach you to rule over your own spirit.  I AM teaching you that you can not live the Christian life, or become Christ like without My help.  You cannot bear good fruit without Me, you must cling to, adhere to, and rely upon Me as your Source of life, strength, nourishment.  Stay glued to Me.  The very nature of clinging is faithfulness.  It is a refusal to let go, even when your flesh and your soul reap bitter fruit.  Faithfulness is having the faith that even in your bitter places I can help you overcome and begin to rule in places where you have fallen.

John 15:4-6 AMP

Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.  I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.  If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned.

Prov 25:28 NKJV

Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls .